1. Poetry Terms 4

2. Lyric Poem
Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings
Used to/could have a musical accompaniment
Sonnets and odes are lyric poems
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”

3. Couplets A two-line stanza Two lines that have the same end rhyme
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
My cat, she likes to chase a mouse, Especially one that’s in the house.

4. Conceits
John Donne is the man when it comes to conceits. “The Flea”, “The Good-morrow”, “The Bait”, and “A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning”
“If they be two, they are two so As stiff Twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix’d foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th’ other do… Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it,”
Make unusual and unlikely comparisons between two things, it allows readers to look at things in a new way.
Conceits, on the other hand, surprise and shock the readers by making farfetched comparisons. (Unlike the predictability of metaphors and similes)

5. Extended Metaphor
“Hope is the thing with feathers”-- Emily Dickinson has compared “hope” to the “little bird”
“All the world’s a stage” -- Shakespeare has remarkably compared “earth” to a “stage” in the extract mentioned above.
“It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon…”--Shakespeare has compared “Juliet” the “sun”.
An implied comparison carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem. (It’s extended longer than a line)